As I sat down to watch the 2022 war movie "Operation Seawolf", I must admit that my expectations weren't exactly great. Why? Well, let's just be honest here, Dolph Lundgren doesn't exactly have a string of consequtive hit movies to his belt. But as this was a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give it a fair chance, and thus I sat down to watch it.

Writer and director Steven Luke actually managed to put together a wholesome and surprisingly enjoyable storyline here. Sure, the movie wasn't exactly boasting and looking like a multi-million dollar production, but the spirit was there and it was actually a well-written storyline with interesting characters. So the sometimes questionable low budget feel that there was to the movie, especially in the American navy offices, was bearable.

I was genuinely surprised and entertained with the storyline that Steven Luke churned out of here. And while "Operation Seawolf" is not going to become a new "Das Boot" movie, then it was actually a good movie about submarine warfare during World War II. And the character gallery in the movie was nicely written too, detailed and layered characters.

Now, I have to say that leading actor Dolph Lundgren carried the movie quite well. And it was also nice to see the likes of Frank Grillo and Hiram A. Murray on the cast list, though they were both not utilized enough for the movie, as they only had limited time on the screen.

Something that was bothering me about "Operation Seawolf" was the fact that the German submarine naval crew were speaking English, with a slight German accent to it. It just doesn't really work all that well, especially not now in 2022, where other movies actually have actors and actresses speaking in the correct corresponding language of whomever they are portraying on the screen.

Visually then "Operation Seawolf" was surprisingly good. The CGI was good and most of the sets were good, and it definitely felt like a proper World War II movie. And I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the scenes at open sea.

"Operation Seawolf" is definitely well-worth sitting down to watch.

This film is either: a) A representation of Germany toward the end of WWII; or b) Have this entire cast & crew & writers & Directors ever seen a 'REAL' WWII submarine picture? Although I did plod through it until the hapless ending, There were so many things wrong with this picture, that I'd like to point out just a few.

Early in the film, the 'new' crew gets all lined up for inspection. To be ruefully honest, they all looked as if they'd just paused their Game Boys, Cell Phone games, or whatever, to get off their fat rears long enough to form some sort of 'line' for poor, unshaven, haggard Dolf Lundgren to inspect. Lundgren looks like he just finished "Rocky IV", and they just got the red coloring off. Not even their uniforms matched! Carry this theme to the locations, the desks & chairs, even the pictures on the wall and you will have an idea of how this film looked. Bad.

It is also way past obvious that the number of people in the film was cut to the absolute minimum. On the U. S. side, there is a guy who keeps running to the General with the latest news -- in his first appearance, he looks like he's thinking: "Gee, I'm really in an actual movie!". Yes, this film is THAT bad!

To be fair, making a film set in ~1945 is more difficult in 2022 then it was in 1945-1950. But still!

Do not waste your time watching this film. This film looks as though the recent 'plandemic' really did wipe out most of the (Hollywood?) population.

This B-Grade movie is loaded with numerous factual errors and goofs. Rank insignia wrong, wrong uniforms and boots, office and household items that post date WW2, filmed in an obvious American submarine that is supposed to be German and on it goes.

This movie was actually available on-line in full HD, to be viewed on 3rd party streaming site about a week before the official release date. I watched it there and waited until IMBD unlocked the "movie review" link after the release date officially passed.

In all honesty, my viewpoint is that any movie with Dolph Lundgren made since appearing in Rocky, is rarely watchable. He has virtually no acting ability at all in my opinion. If I see Dolph Lundgren appearing in the credits of a movie, I am more likely not to watch it, since I find almost every movie with his appearances to be nothing short of disappointing.

As far as the movie goes, the storyline is believable, even though historically inaccurate. It is correct that Germany experimented with rockets launched from submarines with the intended target to be USA, German technology failed to make such a concept operational. Just google "rocket U-boot" to read about the failed program.

There is one scene that left me cringing.... Dolf Lundgren as a Submarine Captain Hans Kessler is inspecting his crew in a building basement. He says, "these are not kriegsmarine", to which the mariners all lined up in different uniforms, and some not even in uniforms (contrary to strict German regulations), start stamping their feet singing a German naval song, which is an attempt to "carbon copy" the same sequence in WW2 classic "Battle of the Bulge" with the tankers singing Panzerlied. Apart from the naval song not being inspirational to anyone not familiar to it, some of the mariners (actors) are seen with their hands in their pockets and not even singing along, not withstanding that it was sung very badly and out of tune.

Like I said earlier, the story line is believable, but as it nears the end, the story line goes off on an unbelievable tangent.

Overall, the movie is OK to watch if you are bored, but it depicts nothing accurate, nothing historical, nothing suspenseful, bad acting, bad cinemaphotography, I consider the movie as a recommendation to watch, only if your lawn grass stops growing and there is no other more exciting action to watch.

I will not say that the movie is a piece of Krap, but it may well be a significant contributor to that pile of Krap you will see popping up on the sidewalk.